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They accomplish this through expensive and sometimes dangerous plastic surgery, but the image of the mask is more important to them than the true health of the individual.

The point about his defense is that he wanted to stick to the speech he had prepared and it was planned and was well prepared.

Occurring as it did from the middle of the 1700s to the middle of the 1800s, the Romantic Period was an age of tremendous change and upheaval.

But ahead of that, he distinguished that, as the first American novelist to got the prize from the end of World War II, he had a particular obligation to accept the modified situation of the [...]

In order to defend Henry, Shakespeare portrays that the stability and order of the kingdom partly depend on Henry's proving his qualities as a strong leader, drives home in realistic detail the disorderly "savagery" in [...]

First and last he was a man of the theatre to whom the touchstone of success was the pleasure of the audience.

Gary Paulsen's works are different from other novels designed to appeal to young adults because of his ability to celebrate the natural terrain and the interactions of the characters with nature. The identification with the [...]

In 1516 More completed his most well known and contentious work, Utopia, a work of fiction in which a imagined voyager, Raphael Hythloday, explains the political structures of the invented island nation of Utopia for [...]

The woman's role is depicted ever so poignantly in the works of Divakaruni and this also reflects the importance of reclaiming the understanding of the role of women in society.

Unfortunate for her Jonathan also aspired to be a successful writer and was in a way, jealous of Erica and her writing abilities.

Colossus is an attempt to persuade Americans that the United States has the power to become a global empire, stronger than Britain was in the nineteenth century. The fundamental idea of the book is that [...]

A reorganization of the banking system, limitations on the stock market, an increase in the volume of bureaucracy, and the patronizing of social security were a few of the projects undertaken by his government to [...]

The idea of the work lies in the fact that Aylmer, the main character of the story, has a fixed idea to remove a little birthmark from the face of his wife.

As literature in this way or another is a reflector of human life, dress and appearance fulfill here the same functions of presenting the characters or events, revealing the characters' inner worlds or the crucial [...]

The novel form is oriented toward the creation and depiction of a world, and in the form, this world is endowed with wholeness and perfection.

Emilia Galotti is the central figure of the play with her parents Odoardo and Claudia. Emilia is the daughter of a respectable bourgeois officer Odoardo and has caught the eye of the womanizing Prince Gonzaga.

In Chapters I and II of his book "The Rings of Saturn", George Sebald provides readers with an insight into the essence of his apparent mental inadequacy, which prompts the author to take lengthy tours [...]

Bauby was absorbed by this idea, and after the stroke happened to him, he thought that the power of thought was so strong that his idea gave him the chance to write the desired book [...]

The shallowness, the injustice, the strive for wealth and power, brutality, and greed are the common themes, developed and explored in the books by Julia Alvarez "In the Time of The Butterflies" and by F.

Many critics have generalized the version of the "Invisible Man" as the most influential novel of the Post World War II and the greatest literary work highlighting the extraordinary way the invisible black man strives [...]

Therefore, all real emotional response is suppressed and the perfect regimentation of the way of life in the One State is supposed to overcome this fatal human flaw.

The specific inspirations for the Oceania society from "1984" were The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with their inherent propaganda, betrayal of the ideals of the revolution, concentration camps and misinformation.

The point is that the jury, convicting the defendants does not even want to go into the details of this case. It seems, that for the overwhelming majority of people, this mans life is of [...]

From 1859 till 1862 he served as the Speaker of the House in the Main House of Representatives, and than took up the career of the politician dealing with the issues important to the whole [...]

Both Lewis's fantasy, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", and MacDonald's "The Princess and The Goblin" integrate theological fantasies into their writings that suggest Biblical themes. In the tale "The Lion, the Witch and [...]

Bradbury's vision of America and Americans assumes the form of the game of the possible because he wants it to be played out in reality.

The persona says that if the reader is happy, it is because the reader is outside and smiling and if he is sad, then he should get outside and smile.

Though the true nature of the Monster is virtuous and kind, he is treated like a beast, like a devil and even his creator addresses to him as to "it" "For this I had deprived [...]

Gloucester, in response to the attack on Edmond, promises to bring Edgar to justice, and also states that he is going to make Edmond his heir.

Cotton Mather however does not forget to mention the fact that devil exists and he works in collaboration with the witches and uses them to achieve his goals and objectives of seeing that the world [...]

Thus, it can be stated that the major theory of the book is the depiction of the development of the mankind through the perspective of the Jewish people and its relations with other peoples of [...]

He shouts his good fortune to his fellow divers, and before he reaches home, the news is already known to the inhabitants of the village and the town, including the priest and the doctor.

Hence, the decision he takes could explore his temperament and hence reading the themes of exile and escape in Hemingway's Soldier's Home is an interesting study of these sensitive concepts as caricatured in the protagonist, [...]

Analyzing and comparing "Ashes" by Sedaris and "Silent Dancing" by Cofer the reader is enabled to understand the course of relations in two different families and to undertake the idea of two different life paths [...]

In his book 'The sorrows of War' he depicts the social environment of Vietnam before, during the period of the war, and after the war.

The comparison is expected to be made through the following perspectives: Comparison of the personalities of the two female characters; Comparison of the role that the societies where the characters lived in played in their [...]

Contrary to the author's statement about the art of loss that she repeats in four stanzas out of six the point of the poem is that the art of losing is hard to deal with, [...]

In the modern short story tradition, the effectiveness of a short story depends on many aspects and one of the most essential elements that go into the effective narration of a short story is its [...]

The honesty in which the poems of Semezdin Mehmedinovic were written might lay in the fact that for the whole period of the Serbian nationalistic siege he remained a citizen of Sarajevo.

The methods of revealing the characters and how the authors' managed to entice the audience to identify with the characters are only similar in that they are each quite unique.

The essence of the comparative analysis of these stories will lie in the techniques used by the writers to develop their characters, render the same theme of their stories and convey the tone and atmosphere [...]

When the 'hero' Ivan Ilych attempts to recall the past in an attempt to justify his claim that he had led a simple and ordinary life, and wants to raise questions as to why he [...]

The novel Petrolio is one of the most impressive and outstanding works of Pasolini depicting the life of homosexuals and the underclass in Italy.

It is because of the uniform content and constantly relevant themes of the children's stories that have allowed it to endure the test of time.

It gives us the various diversities between the kind of life which the Europeans lived in Europe and the way they start living in America.

He described the promotion of a young country girl Denise who came to Paris in search of a better life, the success of a developing department store business, and the atmosphere of commerce and shopping, [...]

The most obvious similarities in the language of the two plays are that it takes a good actor to be able to deliver the lines at all, and a superb actor to be able to [...]

Through female characters, Stowe argues that racial problems have deep historical roots that are closely connected with the period of slavery and dominance of "whites" and the low position of women in society and their [...]

Wit starts with Vivian addressing the watchers: she is presently a patient in a central research clinic undergoing curing for sophisticated ovarian cancer, and she realizes that the prognosis is not consolatory."The Faerie Queene this [...]

The travel from the physical world of the body to the world of the spirits is symbolized by the gentle ride in a carriage shared with pleasant company.

Although the innocent black man is killed while attempting to break out of prison when he might have gone free had the case proceeded to a higher court, Atticus and the town's sheriff conjure a [...]

At the same time, it was clear that communist ideology was inhuman in its core as it was totalitarian and had much in common with the absolutism of Russian tsars, which was changed by Soviet [...]

This is the essence of Hamlet and what makes the sentiment so true to our time the inherent pain of life, a cosmic sense of injustice, and the karmic balance of natural order.

The first thing that comes to our mind is that in both works under consideration one can hardly define the main character: in James's novella, one can hesitate between Daisy and Winterbourne, in Winter Dreams [...]

The three texts explored here, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan, and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart are all popular examples of writers exploring foreign lands, though the language, tone, and [...]

We see the countryside along which the protagonist, who is only referred to as "Your Excellency" by the driver and the innkeeper, travels, and finally a small house in which the man and his driver [...]

In noticing that the author is female, we begin to think that this is her story and that she has risen above the choices she was given after all, so it has a happy ending.

One is gardens and flowers, and the other is the less concrete spiritual things, like the soul, the body, the mind, life, and death.

The epic poem serves to provide the transition between both worlds by linking the ideals of the Old Code to the ideals of the Christian belief system.

The advantages of this solution are enumerated throughout the essay, including the reduction of Papists, who produced more children than others; the provision for the poor of something valuable; a reduction in the number of [...]

His sister Rose, the closest person in his life and the prototype of Laura in "The Glass Menagerie", actually suffered from epilepsy and underwent a prefrontal lobotomy in the mid-1930s, which has a clearly negative [...]

The book is an account of the trip of a white journalist who takes the risk to go on a six-week trip to racially discriminated Southern states in the likeness of a black man.

The director aims at portraying Oedipus as a confident person and this is very evident in Oedipus' opening speech in the play as it exudes the authority of a father to his people and brings [...]

The book starts with the overview of the rise of the Western World with the special emphasis on the Habsburg Bid for Mastery and importance of finance, geography, and winning of wars.

Rejecting the conservatism and work ethic of the "man in the grey flannel suit," they seemed to embrace lawlessness, sexuality, and rebellion.purported spies in the government, they were a danger from within, entrusted with the [...]

The symbols of nature are various, and have different meanings, depending on the context, but the key meanings of these symbols are life itself, and the beauty of the surrounding world.

The Harlem Renaissance, a period spanning roughly the decades of the 1920s and 1930s, is frequently referred to as a literary movement, but the movement also encompassed a great explosion of African-American expression in many [...]

The poem "Howl for Carl Solomon" by Allen Ginsberg is the brightest example of the artistic protest against the humiliating and unfair standards and norms according to which human society lives.

In the play, Oedipus sought his own origins because he understands the importance of knowing his own family. The theme of destiny is also important in the play Oedipus.

Overall it is worth mentioning that the play abounds in symbolic images, For example, it is quite possible for us to say to a certain degree Blanche Dubois represents the so-called old South whereas Stanley [...]

In examining the nature of scandals like the Enron travesty, we see that the nature of politics today is truly in keeping with the tenets of The Prince; leaders favor tactics such as the creation [...]

While I would, personally, not argue that there is or is not a "feminine voice", I would be put to task to define the difference.

Among the major literary obsessions of Willa Cather, one should point her for her realist and at the same time romantic depictions of frontier life in the United States.

The people utilized every means to survive and eventually get out of the streets of the Ghetto. The morale of the people disappeared and the consequent sense of cruelty and loss of hope existed in [...]

In the school in Ballou, we see that good performance is scorned and yet he is struggling to be a good performer.

It tells the story of the Roman Empire from the earliest days to the time of Tiberius. The characters in his works are a shadow of the poet himself.

However, the topic of the poem remains almost the same as in the sonnet the cruelty of this world and necessity to gather all one's powers to resists it.

The poems "Lenox Avenue: Midnight' and "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost have a similar symbol of "night" and darkness.

Giovanni Guasconti is the young man who comes to Padua to study and falls in love with the girl and the garden he sees from the window of his apartment.

The witches' predictions spark Macbeth's ambitions and then hearten his violent performance; Lady Macbeth offers the brains and the will behind her husband's intrigues; and the only heavenly being to emerge is Hecate, the divinity [...]

In writing this story, Dickens seems to make the argument that the reason why the poor are so poor is that the wealthy, whether they are newly wealthy or just the latest generation in a [...]

Title of the Book: The Joy Luck Club Author: Amy Tan Main Characters: An-Mei Hsu Lindo Jong Waverly Jong Rose Hsu Jordan Lena St.

Going further, as a whole the literature from the restoration of the monarchy to the rise of the queen in 1702 it was in striking contrast with the ease of the dispositions of court society, [...]

In the book, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts 1630-1850 by Daniel Vickers, it is clear that getting workers or even slaves is hard due to the economic struggles."By reconstructing [...]

The period of autumn is clearly demonstrated and enhanced through words such as wouldull,' wouldark,' and 'soundless.'The scene is described in such an imaginative manner that it looks real through the use of phrases such [...]

Taking into account the numerous means, which King uses to create the atmosphere of mystery and horror, it is impossible to enlist them all.

In 'A Bird in the house, for instance, we see Vanessa rebelling against her grandfather's dictatorship, and as a result, she is denied the freedom she is fighting for.

In the first place, the point stated in the Manifesto is that human nature might, can, and even should subdue a regime of power in a country.

First and foremost, although it is a literary piece of work, it can be considered as a historical truth thanks to the author living at that particular period of time and claim that the given [...]

The thrust of the paper is focused on taking a multidimensional exploration of the importance of the theme of sexuality threaded in the composition of the novel by Sheng.

He was referred to as the Eagle of the Mountains and had wanted to preserve the independence and strength of the Caucasus against Russia and had the support of the Sultan of Turkey in this [...]

The reign of the absurd has caused violence, and the setting of the story adds tremor and drama to it. War does not bring any good to people, and this is highlighted in the novel.

There is a clear lack of humane perspective in the novel, and this is due to the narrator's lack of concern with people.

Taking it upon himself to complete Yasuko's recollections of the dark days, Shizuma must rewrite the journal to bring to the reader an unmistakable account of the injuries, the horrors and the victimization that was [...]

People tend to think that the mother is the one who always worries about the children more while the father is believed to be the strongest member of the family who is not allowed to [...]

The chronology of Pop' action after he left the hut was in the following manner: Went to Judge Thatcher and threatened him to give up the money.

This abstract symbolizes the matter, that fate achieved the turning point, and the wind of change is blowing. The tears, which she rewards denote that these changes will be rather painful, and lots of effort [...]

This paper defines the term hunger, describes other forms of hunger, and finally tries to interpret Wrights form of physical hunger to find out if it is representative of something.

The central point of the story in concentrated on the concept of "pride" following the actions of Richard, the protagonist of the story.

Set in the cities of New York and Boston, "Death of a Salesman" the story happens during the 50s and 60s, the story reminds readers that there is more to life than just pursuing the [...]

The stories of King Arthur are to be read by all means, and this book should be part of the curriculum system.

He had made expeditions in Lithuania and in Russia, no knight of his degree so often; and many a time in Prussia he had sat at the head of the table alone all the knights [...]

Oedipus at the middle of the story had the urge to free the citizens of Thebes from the threat of the Sphinx.

In "The Storm", the major part of the story is the activities of Calixta and Alcee, the main protagonist, and one of her neighbors who was caught out when the storm arrived, which are described [...]

The first book that has been taken under consideration goes by the name of The Figaro Trilogy and is a compilation of numerous works by the author namely Beaumarchais.

In such an arrangement, there is a tendency to have the opinion that the development of one individual is a benchmark for the development of another, which eventually leads to laxity among some individuals.

It is not a surprise that such a person is confined by the norms and expectations of society and looks for a way to break free.

If we match this to the last line of the poem, we see that he is "clinging" to his father's shirt as his father waltzes him off to bed.

Isaacs explains his belief that this portrayal of the American soldier in Vietnam is detrimental, saying that this contributed to the sense of much of the American public that the soldiers were responsible for the [...]

As she describes it, the reader gets the impression that this fish is quite ugly and undesirable. In the first line, the poet calls this fish "tremendous", and according to the experience of the reader, [...]

Moody, intimately entailed in the civil rights movement in the first half of the 1960s, created a memorable image of the inequities and aggression that featured southern community.

Jonathan Swift, the author of the famous Gulliver Travels, takes a dig at the Irish and British Bureaucracy in his masterful satire, 'A Modest Proposal,' which in the true sense is a mockery of the [...]

Due to his heroic attribute he comes across a numinous phenomenon and in this case he prays to Shamash and divine assistance to overcome the challenges that he is journey to attaining an immortal life.

Sammy's powers of observation and discrimination are clear enough in his description of the leader of the bevy the one he instantly realizes is the 'queen', or, as he later refers to her, "Queenie": She [...]

Gertrude as Queen is the lead female character opposite Hamlet in the book of the same name. Beatrice has long served as Dante's inspirational muse and in the Divine Comedy it is no different, Beatrice [...]

The story was first published in 1926 in Harper's Bazaar and then appeared in the first book of Lawrence's collected short stories.

Even though McKenzie raises important aspects of multiculturalism in the article "The Menace of Multiculturalism", he fails to defend his position because there is a lack of logic and coherency in the presented arguments.

They were Creators, who lived lives of spiritual waste, because they were so rich in spirituality-which is the basis of Art-that the strain of enduring their unused and unwanted talent drove them insane. Women, for [...]

This is the main conflict of the story and it is my belief that she chose to be happy at her newfound freedom while grieving for her husband a little.

The source of the text is the translation and adaptation of the book of Samurais. It is a realistic and sacred guide for a warrior, originated from a collection of commentaries by the samurai, Yamamoto [...]